Drills / With a friend

Receive on the half-turn

Your friend passes to you from behind. Open your body, take the ball with your back foot and play forward through a gate.

Players
You and a friend
Space
16 × 10 m
Kit
1 ball, 4 cones
Time
12 minutes
Age
Under-9s and older
FYou
  • Us
  • Them
  • Pass
  • Run
  • Dribble

Set up

  • Your friend stands with the ball at one end.
  • You stand in the middle. Two cone gates at the far end, one on each side.

How it works

  1. Your friend passes into you.
  2. Before it arrives, check over your shoulder and turn your body side-on.
  3. Take your first touch with the foot furthest from the ball, forwards, towards a gate.
  4. Dribble through the gate, then pass back to your friend and swap.

What to work on

  • Look over your shoulder before the ball arrives. Twice if you can.
  • Side-on, so you can see the passer and the gates at the same time.
  • Let the ball come across your body and take it with your back foot.
  • The first touch goes forward, not to a standstill.

Easier

Let the receiver take two touches to turn.

Harder

Your friend calls "left" or "right" as the ball travels, and you go through that gate.

Skills this works on: receiving on the half-turn. Each one has a close-up drawing of the feet.

Especially good for: holding midfielder, central midfielder.

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